Former No. 1 Mats Wilander recounts how he escaped death at the end of 1988 to the Desert Sun. Wilander was supposed to take a cortisone injection for shin splints but "chickened out." ...
No. 8: Mats Wilander, 1988 Wilander had never had a season like it, and he never would again. The Swede, who won the French Open in 1982 at age 17, began his career as a clay-court specialist with ...